Games like Dead District: Survival
If Dead District: Survival is your kind of game, the closest matches are Deadside, XERA: Survival and Project Asteroids — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its base building feels rewarding, emergent player driven moments and atmospheric. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Dead District: Survival: Open-world survival sandbox with base-building, crafting, farming and multiplayer. Explore a dangerous island, fight, build and stay alive.
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Deadside
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Dead District: Survival.
Top pick for Dead District: Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dead District: Survival.
An Open World Survival Shooter blending hardcore PVP and PVE action. Secure precious loot in safe zones or build your own fortress in the wild. With intense gunfights, stunning visuals, and performance smooth enough for any system, the challenge awaits!
XERA: Survival
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with Dead District: Survival.
Second-strongest match for Dead District: Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dead District: Survival.
Action-focused, open world survival shooter, PvPvE against fellow mercenaries and lethal XOIDS. Raid for resources alone or with team-mates, build and defend your base, stash your gear and survive against the odds. You are the hunters. You are the hunted. And the robots never sleep…
Project Asteroids
WHY THIS
Shares resource gathering, base building and an atmospheric mood with Dead District: Survival.
Third-strongest match for Dead District: Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dead District: Survival.
In the vastness of space, you are a lone robot desperately trying to survive. Build, explore, and fight for your life as you face deadly threats in the asteroid belt. This hardcore game shows no mercy—dangers lurk at every step, ready to destroy you at any moment.
Out of Reach
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a challenging mood with Dead District: Survival.
Ranked #4 for Dead District: Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dead District: Survival.
You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!
Afterinfection
WHY THIS
Shares base building, crafting and an atmospheric mood with Dead District: Survival.
Ranked #5 for Dead District: Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dead District: Survival.
Afterinfection is a brand new zombie survival game designed in Unreal 4 and being developed by a small team from Thailand. After creating your survivor, you’ll start with nothing and have to make your way across a large island searching for food, water, weapons, and crafting supplies.
Dominus Automa
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Dead District: Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dead District: Survival.
Dominus Automa is an automated multiplayer RPG created for players who love depth but no longer have time for traditional grinding. Your character lives on the server around the clock, acting according to strategy and priorities. You can talk to them and guide them from your phone, wherever you are.
Desperation
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Dead District: Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dead District: Survival.
In Desperation, you are an elite soldier, tasked to survive in an unknown location. You will be facing many challenges, such as building shelter, finding food and water, fighting off zombies, killer robots and even other soldiers. Will you stay solo, or will you group up? How will you survive?
Robocraft
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Dead District: Survival.
Ranked #8 for Dead District: Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dead District: Survival.
Build insane, fully customisable robot battle vehicles that drive, hover, walk and fly in the free-to-play action game Robocraft. Add weapons from the future and jump in the driving seat as you take your creation into battle against other players online!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Dead District: Survival
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Miscreated
WHY THIS
Shares base building, crafting and an atmospheric mood with Dead District: Survival.
Reviewers of Dead District: Survival cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Dead District: Survival.
Miscreated is a multiplayer online hardcore survival game set in a post-apocalyptic future. You will need to survive against mutants, players, and even mother nature herself.
No One Survived
WHY THIS
Shares base building, crafting and an atmospheric mood with Dead District: Survival.
Reviewers of Dead District: Survival cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead District: Survival.
This is a multiplayer cooperative open world construction survival sandbox game, where you and your friends must find supplies and build shelters in this world. You have to keep an eye on your character's needs state at all times, a bad state is likely to lead to death.
Rust
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a tense mood with Dead District: Survival.
Reviewers of Dead District: Survival cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Dead District: Survival.
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
DayZ
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with Dead District: Survival.
Reviewers of Dead District: Survival cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead District: Survival.
How long can you survive a post-apocalyptic world? A land overrun with an infected "zombie" population, where you compete with other survivors for limited resources. Will you team up with strangers and stay strong together? Or play as a lone wolf to avoid betrayal? This is DayZ – this is your story.
Deadside
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Dead District: Survival.
Reviewers of Dead District: Survival cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Dead District: Survival.
An Open World Survival Shooter blending hardcore PVP and PVE action. Secure precious loot in safe zones or build your own fortress in the wild. With intense gunfights, stunning visuals, and performance smooth enough for any system, the challenge awaits!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dead District: Survival at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dead District: Survival on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dead District: Survival.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dead District: Survival on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Dead District: Survival.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Dead District: Survival on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dead District: Survival.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dead District: Survival on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dead District: Survival.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dead District: Survival on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Massively Multiplayer with Dead District: Survival.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Dead District: Survival on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Dead District: Survival.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Dead District: Survival on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Dead District: Survival.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dead District: Survival on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Dead District: Survival.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dead District: Survival.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Dead District: Survival.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Dead District: Survival.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dead District: Survival.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Dead District: Survival.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Dead District: Survival.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Dead District: Survival.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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Frequently asked about Dead District: Survival
- How much does Dead District: Survival cost?
- Dead District: Survival is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Dead District: Survival have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Dead District: Survival supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Dead District: Survival?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dead District: Survival are Deadside, XERA: Survival, Project Asteroids.
- Who developed Dead District: Survival?
- Dead District: Survival was developed by BadBit Games.
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